Sony Ericsson Brings Back The Walkman Phone

Sony Ericsson’s W-series Walkman phones used to be popular back in the day when feature phones were still popular and desired by many, nowadays the smartphone has taken over and along with the smartphone came music players, providing pretty much almost the same features as the Walkman series and more, thereby rendering the Walkman phones somewhat redundant.

However by the looks of it, Sony Ericsson still thinks there is a demand for feature phones, more specifically, feature phones with the Walkman function built into them. Introducing the Mix Walkman that comes with a “Zappin” key that allows users to preview the chorus of the next song in their playlist, which lets them decide if that’s a song they want to be listening to next. A karaoke mode is also present which will lower the volume of the vocal track in the song allowing you to sing over the song without the original vocals getting in the way. Great for all those American Idol audition preparations!

Specs wise there’s nothing to shout about with the device featuring a 3-inch, 400 x 240 pixel capacitive touchscreen display. It also sports a 3.2MP camera and supports microSD cards up to 32GB in capacity. Sony Ericsson claims that users will be able to get up to 9 hours and 40 minutes of talk time or over 19 days of standby with the included battery. The company also says that users should see 13 hours of music listening or four hours of video watching on a full charge, which is pretty decent. Downside to all of this is that there is no 3G support on the device.

The hardware cover of the phone is also interchangeable and come in the colors of pink cloud, pink, green bird, and green. No exact release date or price yet but Sony Ericsson has said that the device will be available in Q3 this year.